NEED HELP ASAP! GIVING 100 POINTS BRAINLEST!! ANSWER MY RECENT QUESTIONS THAT I POSTED TODAY! (Also this is bud not buddy) When the man comes towards Bud with the leather strap, what inference can we make about the situation?

A The man is going to hit Bud with the leather strap.

B the man is going to give him the strap to use as a belt to hold his pants up.

C The man is not getting the strap for Bud but for someone else.

D The man's pants are falling down and he needs a belt.

Which techniques best describe the tone the author is using in this passage?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

When hamlet shows his mother a picture of king hamlet and a picture of claudius, he tells her to look at the "counterfeit presentment of two brothers." in shakespeare's day, counterfeit meant a "portrait" or "picture." what does counterfeit mean today?